Right here at FightHype, we make an area among the many video content material for a very good, old style written phrase cash shot from the depths of my bulbous, bulging sack. So, prepare for a few of that notorious Magno-rific gooey, salty, generally NSFW fact. This week, we’ve got feedback/questions relating to Boots Ennis signing with Matchroom, Haney-Garcia, Hitchins-Lemos, and Paulie Malignaggi.
Haney vs. “Loopy”
Hello Paul.
Devin Haney vs. Ryan Garcia is lower than two weeks away and I’m not getting any actual feeling for the battle. We’ve seen Garcia act loopy and unhinged. We’ve seen discuss poor ticket gross sales. We’ve seen “new face of boxing” discuss from Devin’s dad. And we’ve seen means an excessive amount of discuss Tank Davis for a battle not involving Tank Davis. However I don’t hear a lot discuss in regards to the precise battle, which I believe might show to be the least fascinating factor about this occasion. I do know you’ve touched on the nuts and bolts of the battle earlier than, however do you share my view that this can be an actual snoozer, with Devin boxing his option to a secure, straightforward factors win?
– Damon
Hey Damon.
The secure, sane prediction for this battle can be Haney UD through jab-and-grab and fundamental boxing. It’s the logical take and, trusting within the smarts of the Haneys, the most certainly battle night time technique. For all of the bluster from dad/coach Invoice Haney, the Haney means is secure, conservative, and centered on enjoying to Devin’s strengths. Opening up would give Garcia an opportunity to land that rocket left hand– the one shot he has to win this battle, IMO. Having mentioned all that, although, I do assume there’s a a lot higher probability of Garcia scoring the upset versus Haney than there was in opposition to Tank Davis. Haney holds his head a bit larger, he’s extra inclined to a stiff counter, and he’s been buzzed earlier than, notably in opposition to Jorge Linares. Garcia, for all his faults and flaws, has extraordinarily fast arms and his wildness/lack of refinement might be a difficulty for a well-trained fighter like Haney, who’s buried in orthodoxy. If Garcia lands one thing huge at any level, all that edge in talent shall be out the window and Haney shall be in uncharted territory. That’s what I discover intriguing about this battle. Sooner or later, Garcia will contact Haney with one thing important. Then, we’ll see what’s what.
All of the nonsense within the lead-up to this battle has performed nothing for selling the occasion. If something, it’s turned some hardcore followers off. It additionally discouraged many from planning to attend the cardboard as a result of there was some respectable doubt as as to if the battle would even undergo. For awhile, Garcia’s social media nuttiness was screaming “psychological well being points will get this battle canceled” and who’s going to e-book a flight, a lodge room, and dish out for terribly overpriced tickets to an occasion that was 50-50 in getting scrubbed? A few of that has been fastened. Garcia is much less distinguished in his nuttiness and ticket costs have been slashed out of necessity, but it surely’s nonetheless going to be a tricky sale.
This Boots was Made for Walkin’
Yo, Paulie!
I simply noticed the information that Boots Ennis signed with Eddie Hearn and Matchroom and I instantly considered you. I needed to drop you this message to get your take. Will this be a nasty or good transfer for Boots? Will strolling away from PBC damage his profession or damage PBC extra?
– D. from The D.
Hey D.
First, no offense, however why the hell would I be the primary particular person you considered after listening to the information? That’s a bit of bizarre, however thanks…I suppose. Second, Jaron Ennis was by no means a “PBC fighter,” he simply fought on some PBC exhibits.
As for the signing, I don’t actually get the purpose until Matchroom frontloaded a ton of cash and supplied Boots a assure he couldn’t flip down. Who’s he purported to battle behind the DAZN/Matchroom paywall? The one battle even marginally marketable there’s with Conor Benn, however I critically doubt that Hearn would toss Benn to the lions (Boots) like that when he’s at present making an attempt to construct Benn into somebody who can promote. Honestly, there’s not a complete lot on the market for Boots at 147, regardless of who he’s signed with. However that simply makes it odder that he’d signal an unique cope with a promotional firm. You’d assume free company can be excellent for him, permitting him the pliability to maneuver round and take greatest accessible affords wherever he can discover them. Shifting as much as 154, in the meantime, will see him in the identical spot wherein he now finds himself at 147. I like him as a fighter and I hope he will get the massive fights he needs/wants, however I don’t see that occuring at Matchroom.
Hitchins-Lemos, Hatin’ Paulie
Hello Paul
So, I do not need to be certainly one of these know all of it guys, however I believed that Gustavo Lemos was going to be pure hell for Richardson Hitchins, Lemos was a come ahead quantity puncher with good energy and Hitchins’ solely asset is him sporting an Quartey-esque jab. It is a huge downside with fights these days. I noticed a really humorous but filled with knowledge remark that mentioned: “I smelled theft earlier than they even entered the ring.” We all know the best path for this may be Hitchins getting a rematch, however in in the present day’s commonplace they’ll discover a gentle contact for him to look good for his subsequent battle (Ala Teofimo).
Yet another query I had for you, what do you consider Paulie Malignaggi the boxing critic? I’m asking you as a result of generally I really feel all the things that comes out of his mouth sounds unfavorable. He’s the portrayal of an individual certainly one of our highschool academics would discuss: “Es una persona que tiene un problema para cada solucion (he’s a person who has an issue for each resolution).
Finest Regards.
– Miguel
Hey Miguel.
Boxing has an extended historical past of scripts being flipped within the ring, through upset, but the script being carried on as deliberate as if the loss by no means occurred. I’m not essentially saying that Hitchins ought to’ve misplaced the battle, however we’ve been across the sport lengthy sufficient to know that it might’ve taken an act of God for the “rising star” home fighter to take an “L” on a card like this, in opposition to an opponent like Lemos. And even when divine intervention managed to beat boxing politics, the script would’ve nonetheless been carried out as deliberate. Hitchins can be put proper again on his similar path to stardom and Lemos would’ve been solid apart as if he hadn’t performed what he did.
This occurs lots. The textbook case of this, maybe, was in 2008 when then-rising star Amir Khan was starched in a single spherical by Colombian Breidis Prescott. Khan would step proper again right into a minor title battle just a few months later after which be set as much as win his first world title lower than a yr after the upset KO loss. Prescott, in the meantime, was given the runaround, received no rub off the win as a fall man who didn’t do his (shedding) job, and was finally floor down by the enterprise till he grew to become the autumn man he was purported to be. I don’t want to inform anybody studying this {that a} fighter’s connections matter. Hitchins simply wasn’t going to lose that night time, even when he had truly misplaced.
As for Malignaggi? He’s fallen into that Teddy Atlas gap the place he is aware of he’ll get consideration with negativity, so now he’s simply shoveling turds into the furnace to get reactions. I like his evaluation of technique and approach. His soapbox stuff is performed out and, IMO, not that credible when you recognize the private biases and prejudices he has.
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